Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Terracotta miniature one-handled cup” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta miniature one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1525 BCE

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup)
Class of the One-handled Kantharoi · ca. 500 BCE

Cup and Saucer, from a Miniature Tea Set
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1500 BCE

Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall
Artist not stated in the record · after 1907

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Trophy cup given by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
Rockford Silver Plate Company, founded, 1882 · 1907

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Two-Handled Cup
John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1700 BCE or 3rd–1st century BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century CE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 BCE
Rangoon Cup and Saucer
Francis J. Emery, active ca. 1878 – 1893 · ca. 1878–85

Terracotta one-handled cup
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE

Cup and High-Backed Saucer with Handle
Lefebvre (Rue Amelot No.64, Paris), French, active late 18th and early 19th century · late 18th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 148 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 501 matched · 40 examined · 26 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:50 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.